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The Scoop on Radiant Floor Heat

We are renting a home with hydronic radiant floor heat and recently started it up for the season. It's not a small decision, as the system is slow to heat up and slower to cool down. So, even though...

Fortis Arbor Reclaimed Wood Mosaics by Flux Studios

Fortis Arbor Wood Mosaics, produced by Flux Studios, are tiles made from sustainably harvested and sourced bamboo, teak and rosewood. Partnering with a small furniture company, the wood is taken fro...

The Story of a Bench: Part 1

Okay, we’ve finally decided to do it – get a bench made for the landing strip. We’ve been thinking about it for over a year, and have started the process to work with Green Sawn to make a cust...

Extreme DIY: Radiant Floor Heating

We swoon at the thought of heated floors. Efficient, green, and oh-so-toasty, a floor heated from beneath with a radiant hot water system is perfect for San Francisco, where it's often colder inside t...

Before & After: Black and White Stripe Linoleum Floor

Attention, all you renters out there: this is an easy, affordable, and ultra-stylish way to upgrade your dingy rental floors. We have been meaning to do something like this ourselves for quite some...

What Are Some Green Flooring Options?
Good Question

Q: We bought a 70's brick ranch near the coast. It currently has carpet throughout the house (even in the kitchen!) and we want to replace that with a sustainable floor. The front hallway leads straig...

Update from Black and White: Patterned Cork Kitchen Floor
Country Living

We love the classic look of black and white, diamond-patterned kitchen floors. They're very 1950s diner but can look clean and modern, too. Well, this is an eco-friendly riff on that idea, with sustai...

Engineered Flooring by EcoTimber

Engineered flooring has gotten a bad rap because of its thin veneer counterparts, but FSC-certified EcoTimber flooring is out to change that misconception with its 3.6mm wear layer, providing enough...

Oak vs. Bamboo: The Stress Tests Are In
KVUE.com 07.08.09

With all the gorgeous and environmentally savvy bamboo floors on the market, their appeal has grown in recent years. They're comparable to hardwoods on many levels, but some folks out their doubt the ...

VAST Composite Pavers

We were just introduced to one of the coolest eco-pavers on the scene — VAST Composite Pavers. They look like bricks, but they're actually made of recycled tires and plastic containers......

New Floors? Why Cork Beats Bamboo

After checking in on yesterday's survey, Green or Not? Bamboo, we were reminded of an article on green flooring that we just recently came across ......

ECOsurfaces: Recycled Tire Flooring

Rubber flooring is great for its resilience, durability, cushion and ease of maintenance. ECOsurfaces has made rubber flooring even better by making it out of recycled tires and recycled EPDM. ECOsu...

Review: Bona Hardwood Floor Cleaner

Last week's Good Question for non-toxic wood care inspired me to tell you a great floor care system I've been trying out. Last year my BF & I recieved the non-toxic Bona Hardwood Floor Care System as ...

Fun with Flooring
Best of 2008

Whether you're into bamboo, linoleum, or straight up earthen floors ... we explored all of it this year. Jump below for our favorite flooring posts....

Modular Leather Belt Floor Tiles
From Ting London

We've written extensively about Ting's mat made from recycled leather belts, a brilliant idea we wish were a little more affordable. The London-based designers recently introduced the logical next s...

Earthen Floors 101

While we hear a lot about the benefits of eco-friendly flooring like bamboo and cork, earthen floors are more rarely discussed. Floors made from clay and varnished with natural sealants have long be...

Antique Barnwood Recycled/Reused Flooring
(or Siding, or Ceilings)

We're not homeowners yet, but we dream of flooring. Often. Which is only slightly disturbing, unless you knew what we dreamt about. Well, here it is folks: reclaimed milled barnwood. This is truly the...

Good Question: Green Flooring Options for a Kitchen?

Awhile back, we mentioned that Mom is about to remodel her kitchen. Not only is she looking for new cabinetry, she's also investigating new flooring options. The old tile isn't going to make the cut w...

Forbo Marmoleum Flooring

Forbo natural flooring product has been featured and discussed on AT before, but we'd like to focus on the design (color!) components as much as the green ones. The linseed oil, wood flour, rosin, and...

Look! Marmoleum Ingredients (for Breakfast?)
West Coast Green 2008

Last week, we spent some time chatting with the people at the West Coast Green Marmoleum booth. They were saying something about how easy it is to install when we were distracted by some sort of grano...

Green Flooring: RetroPlate

(Hello to Rachel, one of the bloggers trying out for a spot on the Re-Nest editorial team. Comments are welcome!) If you have concrete floor that needs a little revamping, but don't want to get close...

TING Vintage Belt Floor Mat

Remember TING? They're the ones who make those cool pillows and hammocks out of seat belts. Well, we have no place for a hammock, but we did just come across this floor mat. It's a little pricey, ...

EcoTimber introduces Formaldehyde-Free Bamboo Flooring

The striped pattern characteristic of bamboo flooring is a byproduct of the production process. Many strips of bamboo are glued together, and then the strips are heated and compressed to set the glue...

Green Idea: Local Wood

If you've decided that there might be something to the locavore thing, wouldn't it make sense to practice the same ideas when it comes to building products? North America is fairly rich in wood resou...

Some Smith & Fong Bamboo to be FSC Certified

Bamboo is one of those products about which it's easy to make assumptions. It's easy to assume bamboo is green. It's easy to assume bamboo is renewable. It's easy to assume that because it's natura...

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